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  1. Copyright infringement is not stealing. Whatever you might think about the ethics of it, the definitions of the terms are different. See for example - https://www.quora.com/Intellec...

  2. If you don't want Windows 10 and don't click agree on any eula and they do it anyway then the eula has no meaning.

  3. Amazon flicks it little toenail to let a small annoyance fly.

  4. Re:Scientists have no sense of humor. . . on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats Xy McXface.

  5. Have a free password courtesy of lastpass on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    JGL5CyR^c0#zSZrw8K$uuRWNJ8zPACC5z^XvpTbij#@89Ro39gSmJ8ZQareGW8*CyovRM$VU#Rfpu$CkLKi^FBcvaWqAqUu$cjm!

  6. Learning method on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 1

    Basic, then Z80 assembly on a timex ts1000 (a Sinclair zx81 rebranded for the US market).

  7. My email provider, fastmail is in Australia so that should make it a little more difficult for them.

  8. Re:Uh... on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 2

    You really should upgrade to perl 4. Perl 5 has a lot of nice ideas but comes with a lot of nonsense where they tried to make it object oriented and modular which you don't need, so stay away from that.

  9. Re: After I received a DMCA notice from them... on Copyright Trolls Rightscorp Are Teetering On The Verge Of Bankruptcy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Isdn is still around? How about frame relay, do people still use that?

  10. Exactly, the rising minimum wage stuff is just an excuse. Screw Wendys. If I had mod points...

  11. Re:Cultured meat on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Culture isn't important. Ask Charlie the tuna. People don't want tuna with good taste, they want tuna that tastes good.

  12. Related links on Windows Phone Free-Fall May Force Microsoft To Push Harder On Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In related links at the bottom of the page is a story "10 killed at Umpqua Community College" from October. Related how? Did they use Windows phones?

  13. No dumb April Fools stories on Slashdot today on No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Thank goodness there are no stupid painfully obvious April Fool's stories on Slashdot today (yet). Some web sites make good April Fool's stories. Slashdot's always made me cringe.

  14. Re:What other bases does this hold for? on Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you rtfa it says "Lemke Oliver and Soundararajan discovered that this sort of bias in the final digits of consecutive primes holds not just in base 3, but also in base 10 and several other bases; they conjecture that it’s true in every base. "

  15. Re:Free choice on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    There is literally no job that is available to a man that isn't also available to a similarly capable woman.

    Sperm donation.

  16. To do on The FSF Is 30 Years Old; Where Should They Go From Here? (fsf.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get Hurd done.

  17. When talking about moths, fewer than is correct. They are discreet objects.

  18. Prediction on Ask Slashdot: Predictions For 2016? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    I predict Christmas will come on December 25. I also predict the sun will rise tomorrow morning.

  19. Re:So this is Slashdot? on Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    They say they're trying to sell it. Who knows if it's worth anything though.

  20. Kazhakstan CNN ads on In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Kazhakstan has loads of advertisements on CNN trying to persuade businesses to locate there. Good way to screw that one up.

  21. Fine on FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi · · Score: 1

    Fine

  22. Re:Do we really want Google... on Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's silly. It's click to play, not a total block.

  23. Re:Privacy on Inside the Failure of Google+ · · Score: 1

    That is why I decided a couple of years ago to junk my gmail account for personal mail. Google can tie everything else together but not my mail thank you.

  24. Volume control on BBC Reveals Its New Microcomputer Design · · Score: 1

    I like that when I hover over the volume control on the video demoing this that it goes to 11.

  25. Re:Unnecessary on The Best Way To Protect Real Passwords: Create Fake Ones · · Score: 1

    If you aren't famiiar with password managers they ease a lot of pain. You won't need to remember those insecure passwords for unimportant sites or even the secure password for your bank, just the one for the password manager. Lastpass.com will lead you to one of them.